Crustypunks
Photographs by Steven Hirsch
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Crusty Row
"I don't know what these cops are doing. Fucking assholes."
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I got a hundred dollars from Denzel Washington in Venice Beach, California. In my first month traveling. It was really cool. Like the day b...
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"Tried living in a house a few times. It's just garbage."
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I did a little bit of modeling just for fun and cause like people were asking to take my pictures. If was fun though definitely. Taking pi...
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"When it comes to the concept of modesty, fuck modesty!"
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Basically, you probably won't be able to tell by looking at me, but I chose to live the lifestyle of a transient and a vagabond based up...
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"No one's better then the god damn dog."
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I'm never good with computers, never good with words, never good with pictures. Just kinda do what I do and I do how I do it. I nee...
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"Fuck the police, I got it tattooed on my arm, ha ha."
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Last week I got arrested for sitting at the chess tables not playing chess. Now it's a public park and there's twenty only chess tab...
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"I just like find bones along the tracks."
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I sew a lot. I sew bones on my clothes. I just like find bones along the tracks. I like made this whole skirt out of scratch. Find them and ...
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"I have no desire to do anything ever."
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I hit the road when i was seventeen, after a book I read called Evasion. It really inspired me to go on the road and see what's out th...
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"Does it really fucking matter?"
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Fucking hanging out. Day in New York. I came up here to meet with Road Dog. It's my fault that we're not together now, cause I was s...
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"I'd just rather sleep under the stars."
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I gave it a shot. I did what everyone told me would make me happy. Got an apartment. Got a job. I wasn't happy, so I started traveling...
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"My leash was around my wrist but my dog wasn't attached to my god damn leash."
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Yesterday fucking morning I woke up. Me and my boyfriend woke up. We were sleeping on 5th. Where was it 5th and A? My leash was around m...
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"I also want to get horn implants."
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I like to drink, I like to smoke weed. My next tattoo is going to be the whites of my eyes. The whites of your eyes are a differe...
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"Everybody's fucking robots, everywhere I go there's fucking robots."
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I've just been traveling, around traveling around. I just want to see all fifty states and all the capitals so I can get the fuck ou...
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"I'm really dirty. I'm a dirty kid."
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My original nickname is Raggedy Ann and my friend kept telling me I was not Raggedy, I was rancid so I became Rancid Ann cause I'm p...
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"I'm just forever restless and have a sense of longing for something more."
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Born and raised in Louisiana. I had a pretty like normal life growing up except my mom was always on the road. My mom's a gambler. I...
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"We're all poor, white trash squatters, scum fucks, losers, throwaway kids."
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My father was an attempted cop killer, he was doing twenty years to life for shooting a police officer three times. He was serving five year...
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"My mom's a Czechoslovakian whore."
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I'm a product of the American foster care system. My mom's a Czechoslovakian whore and my dad was a sand nigger. His name was Ahmad ...
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"The entire life, the universe and everything is the answer of forty two."
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I'm forty two. Forty two. The answer to life , the universe is forty two. I am the answer to life, the universe and everything. Forty tw...
"I have the daddy syndrome. He has the mommy syndrome."
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I am a traveler. Did it for six years. This is a poem and mainly the reason why I started traveling. It's about my junkie dad who I'...
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"And the cops ended up giving us a hundred and fifty bucks."
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Just turned eighteen and I was working at Panera Bread. Hated my life. Drink beer work, drink beer work. Some train kids came into my town...
"I did the best that I could to kill that fucker."
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I've been busted drinking a bunch of times in every state except none of that Puerto Rico shit yet. I was beating the shit out of some...
"I always wind up sleeping in places where there is a lot of perverts looking at me in the middle of the night."
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I like to shoot heroin. Sometimes. I'm supposed to be on a methadone program. Doing good. Wink wink. Guess I'm doing good. Kindaish....
"They were one big fat fucking family."
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I was on a Greyhound bus. I was going from Boise, Idaho to Portland, Oregon. I seen the fattest chick ever. So fucking disgusting dude. Anyw...
"They're in a cult man. They're crazy."
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Kinda just got out of a situation with my parents, Jehovah's Witnesses. Like a lot of turmoil in the house. I came back here. I have a s...
"I still have all my teeth."
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I'm drinking beer. I need something to get rid of this pain. It was one of those nights. That's all. I don't know how to describ...
"My dogs nuts just dropped."
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In Baltimore, we pull up right, we're parked and we've slept almost all night. Then we're like gonna get off right because we se...
"Damn girl. What happened to your face? You got fucked up."
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I was sixteen. It was like October twenty third, twenty second. A couple of weeks after my birthday. My birthday's October thirteenth, e...
"I didn't choose to be homeless and to live the way I live."
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I was born and raised in Italy. I grew up in a very poor depressed area in the outskirts of Milano. We were me, my three brothers, my mother...
"I've had bulls come into the spots cause kids were fucking idiots."
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A lot of people look at us like you know we're scumbags and shit but what brings respect is that people like you, you come and see us as...
"My father was a heroin addict, my brother was a heroin addict, my sister was a heroin addict. I mean it runs in my family."
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When I was five I was abandoned by my mother. My mother ended up leaving because my dad was very abusive and would beat the crap out of her....
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